Visited State not functioning the way I'd like it to

Giving a state one of the built-in names (like "visited") causes it to inherit the built-in functions. To do the custom activity you are describing, you need to name your visited state something else, like MyVisited, or CustomVisited, or Completed (my personal favorite).

Once you have done that, you may still have problems, but at least you can troubleshoot knowing that all of the strange activities are a result of what you are doing, not what SL is doing.

Thank you. I'll give it a go.

Unfortunately, it didn't work. Walt. And, this time the checkmarked state didn't appear when I clicked the marker either, not that I want it to function that way.

Try changing this trigger to "when the timeline starts on Menu Slide"

Also you can put a text box on the menu slide with this for its contents: "%completed1%".

That will show the value of the variable, so you will know if it is getting changed.

Good ideas. I'll try.

Here might be the problem. I put in the text box to show the value of the variable, and it shows "false"

Variable:
completed1    True/False    False

Trigger:
Change the State of Marker1 when the Timeline Starts on 1.5 course map (my menu slide) if completed1 is equal to True

What am I doing wrong that the variable is not changing to True.

By the way, Walt, I really appreciate your helping me.

Hi Pegeen! You need something to adjust that variable, then your triggered state change should occur.

Set 'Completed1' to True when .... What happens?

It worked!!!!! Thank you so much!!

Woo hoo!! Glad to hear it Pegeen! Thanks for popping in with an update.